Gay For A Day 1976 A music and costume filled portrayal of the 1976 Gay Pride Parade in Chicago. By filmmaker Tom Palazzolo."Quick Hits From The Archive." To watch the full pie...

Great little documentary by Tom Pazzalo from inside the 1976 Gay Pride Parade.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op0g...

I mean ... in concert with our previous discussion about the upcoming meeting >:( Wasn't planning to put a solo paper in, but this will make it worthwhile for me

Flabbergasted that the CPA has already made decisions about submitted symposiums in just 8 days.

Also happy to say that Ami Harbin, Barrett Emerick, and I will be talking about the politics and ethics of fear in Montreal next summer :)

Online talk by Dr Alexander X. Douglas Time: 31 October, 1:30-3:15 PM central time Alexander Douglas is senior lecturer in philosophy at St Andrews University Abstract: I argue, first, that Spinoza has a metaphysical theory of desire. We desire things, according to this theory, fundamentally because we want to be a certain sort of being. Moreover, his theory is exemplarist: we get our ideas of what sort of being to pursue by imitating examples. When we take each other as examples, however, we end up in a frustrating and dangerous condition. Spinoza's highest recommendation is that we take God as our exemplar. But Spinoza's God is a strange sort of being, possessing no core identity of its own but rather expressed through each and every possible mode. The condition of imitating God is thus not the achievement of an exemplary identity but more like the identityless condition celebrated in the celebrated in the Daoist text Zhuangzi and its commentaries.

Come join us on 31 October (Halloween!) at 1:30 central time/2:30 eastern for this fantastic talk by Spinoza expert Alexander Douglas. It's on Zoom, free but register in advance here-- share/report for wider promotion

slu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New Michael Lewis book out, do you know where your temporarily-embarassed billionaire is?

Seriously! I didn't know that but that's also shit :(

I'd already figured I wouldn't go because of funding but this really settles it for me.

Ugh I didn't realize this. This was such a bad format :(

If you use phi (Φ/φ) my screenreader will say "Greek capital letter phi" or "Greek lowercase letter phi" every time

If Greek capital letter delta, then Greek capital letter phi Greek capital letter delta
Therefore, Greek capital letter phi

Had a lot of fun with the Wilson translation of the Odyssey (after having worked with two popular translations before), excited to listen to the Iliad now that it's out :)

This is such a low bar ... why is storytelling about this discipline so full over low bars being tripped over ...

PS I think if you ask a junior person to talk at your event you are obliged to pay their airfare and hotel. It's just not fair to only give that perk to senior folk (who would prob otherwise decline but often have the institutional funds to pay for themselves anyway)

This story is obscene, but so recognizable to me *already*.

Tempted by the idea that conferencing is a pay-to-play scheme insofar as they are the central (and very expensive) source of networking that supports access to opportunity in the discipline.

I don't think this played as the dry joke I intended but that's okay :)

This was a gag but I absolutely had that experience--it made good work feel much more feasible and human

Pleased to announce that this Winter I'll be teaching an upper year seminar, PHIL404: "Stuff My Friends Published Lately," with special guest lectures from people I wouldn't otherwise get to see in person this time of year.

I sometimes marvel at the fact that literary magazines regularly have submission windows only for POC (and sometimes also other demographics, e.g., trans writers) and then I imagine if a journal like Nous or PPR would do it, and how the philosophical community would go apoplectic

A real hoot to be TAing for an intro epistemology course where they start by reading ch.1 of Nagel's Knowledge book, where she treats epistemic relativism like a goofy position, and then immediately read Barnes & Bloor and Braiding Sweetgrass.

Where does "Of X and Y" phrasing come from and what is meant to impute?

The only famous example I can think of with this is "Of Mice and Men" which I assume is just a way of saying "About Mice and Men"?

You're paying rent, I'm buying one abandoned Ford Excursion limousine per month and creating a residential super convoy. We are not the same.

CFP now available for next year's workshop-conference of
the AAPT (American Association of Philosophy Teachers).

Fantastic event to be hosted at Otterbein University again. Submissions due by Jan 8 2024, but why not submit early?

philosophyteachers.org/cfp-2024-con...

Saddened to hear that U. Windsor philosopher Catherine Hundleby has passed away. You can learn more about her work here: chundleby.com

Quite like her SEP entry, "Feminist Perspectives on Argumentation":
plato.stanford.edu/entries/femi...

Academics:
How much do you spend all-in on your website annually?

(inc. hosting, domain name, services, etc.)

Stg I am going to walk into a philosophy talk sometime in the next few years where someone starts by saying, "Philosophers have recently begun thinking more about gender, but so far no one has asked just what gender is!"

Raise your hand if you've been on the same SSRI prescription for years and years while doctors say "hey, let's not mess with a good thing"

Little known fact: I love research and writing, it's why I chose to apply to PhD programs in the first place! I talk about teaching a lot and love teaching too, but given the opportunity to have more research time I'd jump on it immediately because it's what I want most.

Hyrule Castle lookin' yard 🏇

Good an important question from over on Daily Nous: what do philosophy teachers assume undergraduate already know/know how to do?

(I think the answer is often "far too much")

dailynous.com/2023/08/02/what-we-assum...

So many undergraduate philosophy students not being published in the NYT, WSJ, etc. seems deeply unfair given the demonstrated quality threshold for public philosophy.